Marching to victory Author:Charles Carleton Coffin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: prosecution of the war elected, the loss of life at Fredericksburg appalling the country, the year went ont in gloom to hearts that loved the old flag. In the... more » peals of the church-bells tolling out the old year and ringing in the new there was confident expectation of final triumph to Jefferson Davis in Richmond, gloom and foreboding in the Northern States to those sustaining Abraham Lincoln, requiems for the fallen at Shiloh, Ma- nassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and for the dying and the dead in the still undecided battle of Stone River; but to four million of slaves never such celestial music—Freedom and Citizenship—and to the poor and lowly of every land a brighter future, a nobler life. "Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life With sweeter manners, freer laws. / " Ring in the valiant man and free. The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be." NOTES TO CHAPTER I. (') Foote, "War of the Rebellion," p. 369. () Draper, "Civil War in America," vol. ii., p. 170. (3) Foote. " War of the Rebellion,- p. 366. (4) Idem. p. 381. (3) "Treason Trials at Indianapolis." () "Ritual of Knights of Golden Circle." (.') H. B. Carrington to author. CHAPTER II. OTHER COUNTRIES. will aid us," were the words of Jefferson Davis at Montgomery, Alabama, the evening after his inauguration as Provisional President of the Confederacy, in February, 1S02. Three days after the CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. firing on Fort Snmter, William L. Yancy, P. S. Rost, and Dudley A. Mann, Commissioners of the Confederate Government to England and France, started upon their missions. They arrived in London April 29th, and LOHD JOIIJJ HCSSELL. Lad an interv...« less